PROFILE

Gopi K Aitham

INDIA

SUMMARY

* Project Management enthusiast & practitioner with over 19 years of diversified experience in IT.
* Set out IT career as a software programmer, performed array of roles such as Lead, Manager, Offshore Head, Director of Operations, Trainer, Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Consultant, and Delivery Head.
* Extensive experience in managing projects, conducting business analysis to determine requirements and planning, delivering, and monitoring software applications at the enterprise scale.
* An effective communicator with sound leadership, coordination, planning, employee engagement and analytical skills.
* Impacted thousands of professionals through various workshops on Agile, Scrum, Kanban, PMP certification, MS Project, Primavera P6, and other project management topics.
* Trained and coached teams on traditional and agile practices for various world-class organizations, to name a few - Electronic Arts, LiquidHub, Alexandria, Radiant Sage, Advertise.com, InTense Technologies, Therdose Pharma and Harsco. Acted as consultant for SMEs, instrumental in refining processes and driving agile practices.
* Agile Coach, consultant and trainer, helping organizations imparting knowledge right from team member to company leadership and transforming from traditional to agile.

* Reviewer of 2 books on agile
- “The Project Manager's Guide to Mastering Agile: Principles and Practices for an Adaptive Approach” written by Charles G. Cobb, published by Wiley
- “Valuing Agile: the Financial Management of Agile Projects” written by Alan Moran, published by TSO, UK

GW Softweb

1997 February - 2000 April

Software Programmer

Chennai ,INDIA

* Functioned as Module Lead for various projects on VC++, J2EE, Oracle, VB
* Contributed in development of key modules; specialized and designed User Interface for multiple projects.

TenStep Project Management Pvt. Ltd

2010 April - 2013 December

Director / Sr. Consultant

Hyderabad ,INDIA

TenStep Project Management is Indian entity of TenStep Inc, provides Project Management Consulting, Coaching and Methodology products to its clients in India.
* Provide trainings for both public and corporate on project management topics
* Conducted several workshops and trained/mentored more than 600 managers on PMP certification, MS Office Project, Agile, Scrum and other project management topics
* Operations and New Program Initiatives of TenStep India, a Global Partner of TenStep, Inc
* Specialist in case based interactive workshops
* Identifying business opportunities, deployment of new program initiatives and monitor the progress
* Helped Organization increase business by designing and developing course-ware for “Microsoft Project 2010” and “Agile Development - The Scrum Way”
* Course-ware customization according to client company needs and reviews